A. A. NICHOLS
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A. A. NICHOLS
Page 655
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A. A. NICHOLS, the well known editor of the Manito Express has the honor of being a native of Illinois, his birth having occurred in Vermont, this state, on the 14th of July, 1870. His father, W. H. Nichols, was born in New York about 1842, and was a harness-maker by trade. Having arrived at years of maturity, he was united in marriage with Miss Virginia (Dairy) Morrison, of Havana, Ill., where they have since resided. Their union was blessed with three children, who are yet living, and they lost two: S. J., now makes his home in Peoria; and Mrs. Olive (Turner) Spink, who is living in Havana, and has one child by her first husband and one by her second. Our subject spent the days of his boyhood and youth under the parental roof, and was educated in the public schools. At the age of fifteen, he started out to make his own way in the world, and began learning the printer's trade in the office of the Republican, of Havana, where he spent three years. He was next employed in the office of the Mason County Democrat, where he remained for nearly a year, when he went to Toulon, Stark County, and worked for one year. Returning home on the expiration of that period, he was then once more employed in the office of the Havana Republican, and continued his connection therewith until 1893. On the 19th of August, of that year, Mr. Nichols was united in marriage with Miss E. May Havens, daughter of John and Eva Havens. Her father was a native of New York, and was a farmer by occupation in his early days. After his marriage, our subject came to Manito, and bought out the Manito Express, of which he is still editor and proprietor. It is a five-column quarto, published weekly, and is an interesting and newsy sheet, which receives from the public a liberal patronage, which is well deserved. The editor is a young man, but he handles his business interests with ability, which argues well for his success in future life. A pleasant, genial gentleman, he has already made many warm friends in Manito. |